HB 25-1333 Colorado House · 2025 Regular Session

Legislative Human Resources Division

Summary

The office of legislative workplace relations (OLWR) was established in 2019 as an entity within the office of legislative legal services to provide services to the general assembly, its members and employees, and the legislative services agencies. Specifically, the OLWR is directed to provide services related to employee relations, training, compliance, workplace culture, and workplace harassment, including investigations of complaints under the general assembly's policies on workplace expectations and workplace harassment. The act rebrands the OLWR as the legislative human resources division and directs the division to provide human resource services to the legislative branch, which includes the existing services required by law and additional services, such as benefits administration, compensation and classification, hiring and recruitment, and new employee onboarding, within available resources. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

House Passage

Apr 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Apr 21, 2025 Signed Jun 3, 2025

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What changed between versions

Rerevised (05/06/2025) → Revised (05/02/2025) · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was revised to update its title and version status from 'Rerevised' to 'Revised' and removed references to 3rd Reading status. The Senate sponsorship list was shortened, removing several co-sponsors. The most significant substantive change involves reorganizing and clarifying provisions related to the Legislative Human Resources Division's role in handling workplace complaints, including adding new subsections about complaint investigations and establishing that certain harassment-related records are not public records, with an exception for annual statistical reporting.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on workplace relations within the legislative department, but the revised version clarifies the handling of complaints and public access to related records.

TECHNICAL

Updated version header from 'REREVISED' to 'REVISED' and removed '3rd Reading Unamended' status notation.

Removed several Senate co-sponsors (Cutter, Danielson, Exum, Jodeh, Kipp, Marchman, Michaelson, Jenet, Roberts, Sullivan, Wallace, Winter F.) from the sponsorship list.

REQUIREMENT

Added new subsections (2.5 and 3) establishing the Legislative Human Resources Division as the repository for workplace complaints and defining that harassment-related records are not public records, except for annual statistical reports.

DEFINITION

Reorganized language around complaint investigation processes and clarified the relationship between workplace expectations policy and workplace harassment policy.

Floor votes · Senate May 6, 2025 · House Apr 25, 2025

How they voted

23–11

Passed

Total votes 34

May 6, 2025

D Democratic22

22 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican12

1 Yea 11 Nay

91% Nay

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Jun 3, 2025

Signed into law

Governor Signed

executive

May 6, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments

upper

May 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole

upper

Apr 28, 2025

Introduced

Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs

upper

Apr 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments

lower

Apr 24, 2025

Lower · Passed

House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs

lower

4 primary · 29 co-sponsors